Chaos and Complexity
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Emergence : the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (01 Edition)
by Steven Johnson  
Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's...
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SYNC: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
by Steven Strogatz Publisher Comments The moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the Earth; millions of neurons fire together to control our breathing; every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies flash in silent, hypnotic unison. All of these...
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Investigations
by Stuart A Kauffman Publisher Comments These modest yet profound words trumpet the imminent paradigm shift in scientific, economic, and tehcnological thinking. In the tradition of Schrödinger's classic What Is Life?, Kauffman's Investigations is a tour-de-force exploration of the very...
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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
by Stuart A Kauffman Publisher Comments Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics...
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The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
by Mark Newman Publisher Comments From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept--and the reality--of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly is a network? What different types of networks are there? Why are they...
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A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram Publisher Comments This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments — illustrated in the book by striking computer...
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
by M Mitchell Waldrop Publisher Comments Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans...
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The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
by Harold J Morowitz Publisher Comments When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ? indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different ? we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters...
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Introducing Chaos, 2nd Edition
by Ziauddin Sardar and Iwona Abrams Publisher Comments Reprinted Beginners title now published under the new name Introducing, which provides an accessible introduction to this controversial field. It shows how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal...
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Frontiers of Complexity the Search for O
by Peter Coveney Synopsis This comprehensive work investigates: the role of computers in the understanding of complexity; spontaneous emergence of order in the universe; how nature can solve problems that traditionally defeat scientists; and the likelihood that intelligence will...
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Introducing Chaos
by Ziauddin Sardar Publisher Comments This new edition is one of 20 best-selling titles leading the relaunch of this series of guides to big ideas - from Quantum Theory to Postmodernism. Upmarket, intelligent and arresting, the new-look makeover will bring many new fans to this already...
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Bigger Than Chaos: Understanding Complexity Through Probability
by Michael Strevens Publisher Comments Many complex systems--from immensely complicated ecosystems to minute assemblages of molecules--surprise us with their simple behavior. Consider, for instance, the snowflake, in which a great number of water molecules arrange themselves in patterns with...
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Superfractals: Patterns of Nature
by Michael F. Barnsley Publisher Comments SuperFractals describes new mathematics and algorithms for the first time in book form, with breathtaking colour pictures....
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Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
by Trinh Xuan Thuan Synopsis From the subatomic world to the vast realm of quasars and galaxies, from the nature of mathematics to the fractal characteristics of the human circulatory system, an astronomer takes us on a breathtaking tour of the universe. 22 halftones. Line...
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The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems
by Heinz Otto Peitgen Synopsis The authors present an unusual attempt to publicize the field of Complex Dynamics, an exciting mathematical discipline of respectable tradition that recently sprang into new life under the impact of modern computer graphics. Where previous generations of...
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by John Gribbin Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex...
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Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos with CDROM
by Robin Chapman Synopsis This coffee-table book will delight and inform general readers curious about ideas of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear complex systems. Developed out of ten years of interdisciplinary seminars in chaos and complex systems at the University of Wisconsin...
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Chaos and Fractals: The Mathematics Behind the Computer Graphics
by Robert L Devaney Publisher Comments This volume contains the proceedings of a highly successful AMS Short Course on Chaos and Fractals, held during the AMS Centennial Celebration in Providence, Rhode Island in August 1988. Chaos and fractals have been the subject of great interest in...
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Exploring chaos :a guide to the new science of disorder
by Nina Hall Book News Annotation All sorts of phenomena, including dripping faucets, swinging pendulums, the unpredictability of weather, the paths of the planets, heart rhythms, and gold futures, are best perceived through the mathematical prism of chaos theory. Nina Hall has edited...
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Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit Mandelbrot Publisher Comments Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightening does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not merely degree, from that of the shapes of ordinary geometry, the geometry of fractal shapes. Now...
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